Sentence examples for on upholding from inspiring English sources

Mr. Zhu said that in 1992, the two sides had "verbally expressed they had reached a consensus on upholding the one-China principle".

I'd rather see my brother not as an integer in the realm of political calculation but as a flawed but admirable human being, with perhaps one striking oddity — his uncompromising insistence on upholding his idealism at any cost.

We knew it was a provocative act, but we felt it was a necessary one, because India has a poor record on upholding freedom of expression and we needed to show that threats would not silence us.

We can be confident in our conclusion that claim one is false; not least because it depends on upholding a version of the acts/omissions distinction which I am sure that Savulescu, at least, rejects.

Britain spent vast amounts of money on upholding the strategy.

It's on upholding the central value that is the foundation of western civilisation: democracy.

But Judge Gomez was intent on upholding French law, which largely prohibits the display of Nazi insignia.

But nothing deflates a thriving club scene like repeated unheralded visits by a local constabulary intent on upholding "social order".

His record on upholding democratic rights has also come under fire within his own country and elsewhere.

A dispute about post-storm temporary housing exploded last month, set off by the city government's insistence on upholding an ordinance against single-wide trailers.

It sets standards, takes stock of shortcomings, appoints inspectors and passes resolutions; but its record on upholding human rights is patchy at best.